Students will not return to Robb Elementary School - KENS 5: San Antonio
The school district says it is working through plans on how to serve students on other campuses. Aired on 06/01/2022.
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But this is a small town, they're going to need help. 
So how many times is this going to happen? It looked like a nice school - and teachers and staff are going to have to return to pack up. Plus, how long would rebuilding take? They will need a new school in a couple of months. They only expanded the local high school here and it took both the summer and the next year - I knew one of the students and it sounded like a nightmare, they were doing construction while kids were attending classes and he said that the room where class was held yesterday would be gone when they returned the next day. 
The Nueces and Frio rivers run to the east of Uvalde and they have nice clear water flowing. However, Uvalde is relatively poor with between 25% and 30% living below the poverty line. Unfortunately the city is located north of the Eagle Ford Shale region so they don't benefit much from the oil and gas industries.
I believe that the school campus was constructed within the past twenty years so the grounds should look fairly nice. And for a side note--Texas school districts irrigate the crap out of their schoolyards and 
football fields!
The school itself looked very nice, actually reminded me of the nicest elementary school that I went to - the fifth and last one I attended in five years. The schools up north were decades old, not to mention that the teachers had been there for so long that my second grade teacher often called my classmates by their parents' names (she was also the principal and it was her last year before retiring). And when she passed away at age 105 in the '80s, I figured out that she could have been my grandmother's mother! 
It's really too bad that they have to start over in building another new school, it doesn't appear to be a wealthy community and they don't have much time. They only did renovations to the high school that I attended here locally and that took well over a year - including while students were attending classes! I talked to a boy who was in his last year during the construction and it sounded like a nightmare - he said that the room where he'd had a class the day before would be gone when he returned the next day - or went to change classes - and how did the teachers cope?? What a sad situation for the entire community.
Caroline Street School, Saratoga Springs, NY
